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The countries that do pay for it don’t have significantly higher fertility rates.

I’d say there’s an elephant in the room: Childbirth sucks. If you want women to willingly subject themselves to that, you need either a culture that virtually requires it-

And I want to take a moment to emphasise that I don’t like nor want this solution, and would fight anyone who tries for it.

-or you need to pay them well above the actual economic cost of rearing a child, because the process itself is strongly negative. Yes, having a child itself can be great. Eventually, several years in, when they start to become a person.

That’s true, but if you ask any of the women I know, they’ll tell you they’re perfectly happy to keep it at one.

That’s in Norway, by the way, so not one of those countries where you get zero support.

The purpose of limiting memory use is so your computer does not become laggy as you run out of memory. We don’t do it for its own sake.

But then, what’s the point in using an inherently laggy technique to save memory?

"Multiple minutes" doesn't sound like a lot. With millions of shards, do you really need to regenerate the assignment layout every couple of minutes?

Too coherent. You need to work on your simulation.

There aren’t currently any alternatives which do an equally good job of printing, except for other Bambu products.

A lot of things are toxic at high doses, yet have essentially no effect at low doses. The linear no-threshold model is a simplification that rarely matches reality.

I’m aware. Unfortunately I’m an iPhone guy, and the software is more important than the hardware…

Also I don’t need fully ruggedized. Just enough that a cover would be superfluous.

Why would I need the compressed layers?

I would prefer a phone that was robust enough to not need a cover, because covers add a great deal of size and weight.

In the absence of such phones, I compromise on adding a cover.

The last one. It would make sense to have a sandbox system, but they don’t.

Presumably, if you use formal verification then that includes memory safety anyway? Would seem strange if it does not.

I can do one worse.

I have aquarium lights. They require 48VDC at 1A, which makes it quite a bright light; they’re nice, really…

But the connector is USB-A, and worse, marked as being USB. The power supply just provides 48V unconditionally.

Yes, but isn’t that working as intended?

Mostly, that's non-compliant devices. Doesn't make it work any better, but I wouldn't assume Apple is doing it wrong here.

USB-C ports aren't allowed to provide power until after configuration, but a lot of USB-C chargers provide 5V regardless. This is wrong, but it does mean you can use a dumb C-to-micro cable which doesn't include the necessary electronics. (A pull-down resistor at least.)

And of course there's no way to tell by the looks of the cable.

Solar and wind cannot do that. We'll need oil and gas to tide us over for that decade or more.

Root access does not typically add anything interesting, for a desktop system. All the valuable stuff is already owned by the single user.

Run “nix flake update”. Commit the lockfile. Build a docker image from that; the software you need is almost certainly there, and there’s a handy docker helper.

I refuse. My code will be formatted according to my own preferences.

By image generation standards this is a ridiculously good result. No surprise that people instantly find the new limits, but they are new limits.

I would be perfectly happy moving it off-Earth. We can consider the long term after we have a mid-term.

The exemption is about ensuring customers get what they paid for. It shouldn’t care how the manufacturer achieves that; driving the batteries less hard is an obvious tactic, and actually also makes them safer to use.

It will certainly affect the health of the TV.

In American law, companies have the choice of whether or not to do business with the government, outside of a few corner cases. There’s a process for forcing them, but it can’t just be because the leader says so.

In this particular case Anthropic had a contract stating what the military could and could not use their models for. The military broke that contract. Anthropic declined to sign a revised one.

This is within their rights, and more to the point, the government should absolutely not be allowed to unilaterally alter contracts they’ve already signed!

Predictability is the whole point. Undermining it is how you destroy your own economy.

Anthropic has not in fact released it, and it does in fact appear to be that dangerous, judging by the flood of vulnerability reports seen by e.g. Daniel Stenberg.

Certainly it’s a strategy OpenAI has used before, and when they did so it was a lie. Altman’s dishonesty does not mean it can never be true, however.

You can’t get the couch into the elevator, typically. Trust me, I tried.

Couch depending. I will persist in trying every time this comes up.

Because their numbers don’t work out. When you do the math on token cost versus inference speed, you get something that barely breaks even even with cheap power.

Also they’ve already launched a crypto token, which is a terrible sign.

No, but to be honest, why would you want it to? That's... well, you already showed the trivial one-liner.

Getting a grant from a single field is already a full-time job; the research typically gets done as overtime.

If all you have is a spade, that is _not_ evidence that spades are good for excavating an entire hill.

But is it true or false?